Intentionally pissing off your customers in a bid to convince them to buy more shit from you is one hell of a business strategy. Let me know how it works out for sales and (what's left of) your reputation.
Eeyup. That is why back in ye days of olde, my upgrade path went TI-99/4a --> Used Apple ][+ --> New Apple IIGS --> DOS/Win/Linux PCs and laptops.
I figured it was the ignorant masses who do not understand the differences between different imaginary properties who keep mislabeling it copyright. Disney and the other huge organizations just don't see a need to correct the public on that and probably find it beneficial to just let everyone get it wrong.
Xanth perhaps? It would be good for at least a half season before it st arted losing its appeal and becoming rehashes with the protagonists getting younger and younger until we have a sperm cell and an egg cell out on an adventure.
They need to make a change to the scene in The Hobbit where Legolas is surfing on the barrels. Have him break the fourth wall by musing about how many kids are going to fail their book reports and out themselves as cheaters by reporting on this scene.
I tend to listen to the white redneck types reminiscing about that music Grandma and Grandpa used to play, or a young buck kicking the Devil's ass in a fiddle showdown, or singing auctioneer style about all the places he has been, or singing about how he loves being on the road again and making music with his friends, etc.
My first thought was that whoever programmed the calculator app did it using Common Core math techniques; then I realized if that was the case, the answer to 1+2+3 would have been something along the lines of "Purple, because bananas can't moonwalk."
Show me one freaking phone today that I can replace the battery! Just one? Don't cite older phones sold used or refurbished. I just do not want to blow $300 a fucking year due to glued in batteries and screens you have to break
The Samsung Luna I just bought new about a month ago has a raplaceable battery, as did the phone it replaced: A Samsung Centura, the phone it replaced (which was my first smartphone...hell, first mobile phone I ever bought, like 5 years ago or so).
That holds about as much wisdom as the patent clerk back in the early 20th or late 19th Century who boldly proclaimed that everything that can be invented has been invented.
My first reaction to this story is what will prevent fraud? It has already been proven that editing video and audio is possible to significantly change the story of what has been captured. It might be trivial to add an object to a video such as gun or another bystander that didn't exist. Something to cause confusion or doubt in a court case. Computers can be used to rearrange voice and even learn a voice and be able to make up sounds that didn't exist.
I would hope that appropriate protections exist to prevent this kind of fraud on a body camera. However there is nothing to prevent that from a public video without further expert analysis to somehow prove that the public video is authentic. I think I like the idea, but it will need a lot of authenticity and security considerations.
For plausible deniability purposes, all such videos should be edited to show that it was all the fault of The Ninja
There will always be a demand for weed and alcohol no matter how bleak the situation becomes. That is the traditional way to give yourself a temporary respite from a shitty situation. Perhaps this little number can explain it better...:)
So the ones who are willing to bring out the old school binders and pencils when the shit hits the fan will be the ones who survive and thrive during the emergency.
The problem is not with credit cards, but incompetent cashiers and owners who cannot handle changing situations.
The raised letters on CC's are going away. About half my CC's have eliminated them.
Also, most retailers don't even HAVE those things anymore. Why would they? I've had a retailer use them exactly once in the past 20 years, and that's when the retailers CC processing went out.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here, imprints can't fail no matter the amount on the account it tries to draw from. It's one of the fail-safes of doing business that way since it's not an immediate draw. It's on the buyer to keep enough cash on the account to not go over limit.
Judging by the new CC and debit cards I just got from one of my credit unions, imprints may go the way of the dodo soon. The numbers on them are just printed instead of raised, so the old style payulators (term learned in the Sniglets days for CC imprint devices) won't work then.
Granted, merchants can just write all that info down in a notebook for transcribing later when the system is back online; but that would make transactions drag out much longer and well, annoy all the other customers who have been waiting forever to check out.
And a well-preserved shotgun shell will let you defend your cans of beans, assuming you have a shotgun to shoot it out of.
Oops. No shotgun, but a P8 and a 7mm deer rifle would suffice as well. And on top of that, the rifle would be useful for acquiring fresh meat from the local deer if the situation ever got to the point where backup food sources need to be tapped into in spite of fish and game laws.
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Anatomically correct drakes?
And when the Internet is invented, I think it will be really cool if people on it misquote me.
-- Abraham Lincoln
“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
Stephen Hawking
Well screw you. I can kick a ball.
-- Some Guy on the old Fires of Heaven boards whose name I can't remember.
Intentionally pissing off your customers in a bid to convince them to buy more shit from you is one hell of a business strategy. Let me know how it works out for sales and (what's left of) your reputation.
Eeyup. That is why back in ye days of olde, my upgrade path went TI-99/4a --> Used Apple ][+ --> New Apple IIGS --> DOS/Win/Linux PCs and laptops.
I figured it was the ignorant masses who do not understand the differences between different imaginary properties who keep mislabeling it copyright. Disney and the other huge organizations just don't see a need to correct the public on that and probably find it beneficial to just let everyone get it wrong.
That would be the same reason Smeagol never married. His life was consumed by the Ring (except he only turned into a lech, not a Gollum type thing.
"I sit on the floor and pick my nose, and think of dirty things; of dragons who wear rubber suits, and Elves who drub their dings..."
Or the Spellsinger series. I loved that one in my younger days and have always wanted to see it brought to the screen (either big screen or small).
Xanth perhaps? It would be good for at least a half season before it st
arted losing its appeal and becoming rehashes with the protagonists getting younger and younger until we have a sperm cell and an egg cell out on an adventure.
Considering they were both sentient beings, it would not have been bestiality.
They need to make a change to the scene in The Hobbit where Legolas is surfing on the barrels. Have him break the fourth wall by musing about how many kids are going to fail their book reports and out themselves as cheaters by reporting on this scene.
And how long before the property enters the public domain? It has to be getting close.
I tend to listen to the white redneck types reminiscing about that music Grandma and Grandpa used to play, or a young buck kicking the Devil's ass in a fiddle showdown, or singing auctioneer style about all the places he has been, or singing about how he loves being on the road again and making music with his friends, etc.
My first thought was that whoever programmed the calculator app did it using Common Core math techniques; then I realized if that was the case, the answer to 1+2+3 would have been something along the lines of "Purple, because bananas can't moonwalk."
You know how farts work right?
And at the very least, as of last week's South Park, everyone who watched now knows how old lady farts work. (shudder)
Show me one freaking phone today that I can replace the battery! Just one? Don't cite older phones sold used or refurbished. I just do not want to blow $300 a fucking year due to glued in batteries and screens you have to break
The Samsung Luna I just bought new about a month ago has a raplaceable battery, as did the phone it replaced: A Samsung Centura, the phone it replaced (which was my first smartphone...hell, first mobile phone I ever bought, like 5 years ago or so).
Most likely in COBOL shops?
So, where did they manage to find early Humans to do these trials on? I mean, everything from Homo Habilis through Neanderthal is extinct. :D
That holds about as much wisdom as the patent clerk back in the early 20th or late 19th Century who boldly proclaimed that everything that can be invented has been invented.
My first reaction to this story is what will prevent fraud? It has already been proven that editing video and audio is possible to significantly change the story of what has been captured. It might be trivial to add an object to a video such as gun or another bystander that didn't exist. Something to cause confusion or doubt in a court case. Computers can be used to rearrange voice and even learn a voice and be able to make up sounds that didn't exist.
I would hope that appropriate protections exist to prevent this kind of fraud on a body camera. However there is nothing to prevent that from a public video without further expert analysis to somehow prove that the public video is authentic. I think I like the idea, but it will need a lot of authenticity and security considerations.
For plausible deniability purposes, all such videos should be edited to show that it was all the fault of The Ninja
Alexa, please add deep fried monkey tits to rtb61's shopping list.
There will always be a demand for weed and alcohol no matter how bleak the situation becomes. That is the traditional way to give yourself a temporary respite from a shitty situation. Perhaps this little number can explain it better... :)
So the ones who are willing to bring out the old school binders and pencils when the shit hits the fan will be the ones who survive and thrive during the emergency.
The problem is not with credit cards, but incompetent cashiers and owners who cannot handle changing situations.
The raised letters on CC's are going away. About half my CC's have eliminated them.
Also, most retailers don't even HAVE those things anymore. Why would they? I've had a retailer use them exactly once in the past 20 years, and that's when the retailers CC processing went out.
And off I go to the Slow Typists' Corner(tm). ;)
I don't know how it is where you live, but here, imprints can't fail no matter the amount on the account it tries to draw from. It's one of the fail-safes of doing business that way since it's not an immediate draw. It's on the buyer to keep enough cash on the account to not go over limit.
Judging by the new CC and debit cards I just got from one of my credit unions, imprints may go the way of the dodo soon. The numbers on them are just printed instead of raised, so the old style payulators (term learned in the Sniglets days for CC imprint devices) won't work then.
Granted, merchants can just write all that info down in a notebook for transcribing later when the system is back online; but that would make transactions drag out much longer and well, annoy all the other customers who have been waiting forever to check out.
And a well-preserved shotgun shell will let you defend your cans of beans, assuming you have a shotgun to shoot it out of.
Oops. No shotgun, but a P8 and a 7mm deer rifle would suffice as well. And on top of that, the rifle would be useful for acquiring fresh meat from the local deer if the situation ever got to the point where backup food sources need to be tapped into in spite of fish and game laws.